Wednesday, October 21, 2020

1956 Rickenbacker M-11 Tube combo Amp in Southern California for $600

1956 RICKENBACKER M-11 Tube Combo Amp This seller is offfering a cool and rare 1956 Rickenbacker M-11 tube Combo for only $600. These are similar to a Tweed Deluxe from the same period. Made in SoCal at the Rickenbacker Electro Factory. I have an M-8 from a few years later and it is one of my favorite samll amps. Just super clear and glassy tone that compresses nicely and gets gritty as you crank it up past 5. Of course that is a 5 watt amp and this M-11 is more like 15-18 watts. These are really well built. Similar to the Magnatone amps of the time. - Jim C *****************************
Okay, I've apparently overestimated the fervor vintage tube amp geeks (myself included) feel for vintage Rickenbackers. Fair enough. I'm dropping the price on this wonderful little piece of American tube amp history so as to send it off to a new owner, hoping he or she will live to see the day when these amps are held in higher regard for their place in SoCal's considerable musical instrument manufacturing history. Here's the skinny: This is a time capsule piece of Rickenbacker history. It's been played for sure, but it's 100% original right down to the tubes (and tube sleeves!). Everything on this vintage amplifier is as it was when it was made in Los Angeles shortly after F.C. Hall purchased the Electro String Company from Adolph Rickenbacker in 1953. The tubes - a Telefunken 12ax7 in V1, RCA 12au7 in V2, two RCA Blackplate 6v6s in V3 and V4, and an RCA Blackplate 5y3 in V5 - all have date codes near the end of 1956. They alone are worth a few hundred bucks! The speaker is an original cone Jensen P12R dated the 47th week of 1956. The transformers, caps, resistors and wiring are all original as well. Everything is! The grey tolex has its share of battle scars, and is lifting in some spots. The control panel has some pitting, which is to be expected from a 64 year old. The power cord is the old "lamp" style, and is of course original. I am the second owner of this amp. The original owner played the hell out of it, obviously! It sounds wonderful: nice and nasty, much like a 1950s Fender tweed Deluxe. All I did to this amp was clean the tube sockets and De-Ox the pots. Amazingly, it's now good to go. I am not open to any trades whatsoever, save a 1964-1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb, and if needed, some cash on my end. I won't ship this amp. You can pick it up socially-distanced style here in Southern California. I'll let you test it, of course, outside on my porch, and you gotta wear a mask, so if that's a problem, forget about it. I'm including a ton of good photos with this, but if there's something else you'd like to see please contact me. Thanks for looking! Call or text Mick 310
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